Intel Core i5-7600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 304.35
$ 363.45 significantly less expensive
$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2899 points
16302 points
462% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5366 points
14590 points
171% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2207 points
16961 points
668% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2115 points
17329 points
719% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2709 points
17230 points
536% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.33 points
643.21 points
948% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4238 points
22134 points
422% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1522 points
3395 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
32
700% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.7 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W
86% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
1280 KiB
400% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
16 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
128 MiB
2033% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

553rd of 1,089
14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-7600K vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster than the Core i5-7600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7600K. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7600K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7600K. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-7600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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